A heartfelt, humorous story of a teen boyâs impulsive road trip after the shock of his lifetimeâtold entirely in lists!
Darren hasnât had an easy year.
There was his parentsâ divorce, which just so happened to come at the same time his older brother Nate left for college and his longtime best friend moved away. And of course thereâs the whole not having a girlfriend thing.
Then one Thursday morning Darrenâs dad shows up at his house at 6 a.m. with a glazed chocolate doughnut and a revelation that turns Darrenâs world inside out. In full freakout mode, Darren, in a totally un-Darren move, ditches school to go visit Nate. Barely twenty-four hours at Nateâs school makes everything much better or much worseâDarren has no idea. It might somehow be both. All he knows for sure is that in addition to trying to figure out why none of his family members are who they used to be, heâs now obsessed with a strangely amazing girl who showed up out of nowhere but then totally disappeared.
Told entirely in lists, Todd Hasak-Lowyâs debut YA novel perfectly captures why having anything to do with anyone, including yourself, is:
1. painful
2. unavoidable
3. ridiculously complicated
4. possibly, hopefully the right thing after all.